Wednesday, 24 May 2017

If I didn’t get that power if I didn’t get the police on me if I didn’t see guns then. I would be ok but I was scared,shocked,depressed.A person came and I heard nok nok on A door I ran to the other door I went into the bushes.I was slowly,angrily,powderly ran into the bushes.as I was walking outside. I was grinded my teeth and bit my nails and scrunched my teeth and then…….boooom his back powers came be was scaredly running down the forest in a satisfying way he was jump,diving and ducking all the police ran out of the forest they all ran as fast as they could speedly they ran to the boys house knock knock I heard something I ran to the door and then…… I just remembered I forgot the keys so…. I looked out the window and then….. Police were all around the house but then….. I just remembered that I had a secret window so I jumped out of the window and the window

Friday, 5 May 2017

This task is about reading to find information and make inferences. Read the article below then answer the questions that follow.

Nobody today has seen a live moa – the bird is extinct.

The things we know about the moa come from accounts left by people who saw it in the past, and from the studies of scientists.

Thousands and thousands of moas have lived and died here, but their bodies have all rotted away long ago. In order to find out how the moa looked and lived, scientists must study the things which are still left – mainly bones.

As well as the bones, people often find little heaps of stones which came from the bird's gizzard. The moa swallowed these stones to help grind up its food. And in very dry parts of New Zealand, people have even found skin and feathers, still stuck to dried-up moa bones.

If you have been to a museum, you may have seen a model of a moa. The model has been built by using all this information as a guide.

Model-building is not very difficult to do. We have lots of moa bones. If you put a set of bones together to make a skeleton, you then have a shape of the bird.

There are places on the bones which show where the muscles should go. You can model the muscles from a plastic material and put them on to the skeleton. Then you put a skin over it.

It is more difficult to find the right sort of feathers. Most models use emu feathers. The moa feathers which have been found look soft and droopy, like emu feathers. But they have more colour than those of the emu – they are golden-brown, with a purple streak down the middle.

Even so, these feathers may be faded. Some early Maori, who were asked about moas, said that they had bright, bright feathers. It may be that the moa was more brightly coloured than the models that you see in the museum.

Source: School Journal, Part 2, No 3, Learning Media, 1982.

Use the text above to answer these questions. Highlight your answer

1. Information about moas comes mainly from

(A) Studies of dried skin and feathers.

(B) Scientific studies and records of people's observations.

(C) Remains found in very dry parts of New Zealand.

(D) Stories told by early Maori.

(E) Making visits to museums.

2. What is often found together with moa bones?

(A) Rotting bodies.

(B) Skin and feathers.

(C) Small piles of stones.

(D) Birds' gizzards.

(E) Ground-up food.

3. Which is the best description of a 'gizzard'?

(A) Container for small stones.

(B) Part of a bird's stomach.

(C) What is left when a bird dies.

(D) Part of a moa.

(E) Part of a bird's digestive system.

4. How is the basic shape of the moa worked out?

(A) By looking at the places where muscles attach to the bones.

(B) From making a model out of plastic material.

(C) By reading accounts left by people who once saw it.

(D) From examining dried skins and feathers.

(E) By putting together a complete set of bones.

5. Compared with emu feathers, moa feathers were probably

(A) Softer and droopier.

(B) Less colourful.

(C) Harder and stiffer.

(D) Faded and streaked.

(E) Brighter.

6. Why has no living person ever seen a live moa?

Because no person was alive when they were born

7. Why would moa skin and feathers only be found in 'very dry' parts of New Zealand?

Because in the wet places they would have rotted away.

8. How do scientists know where the moa's muscles were attached to its skeleton?

Once it was 6.15 in the morning and that morning…… some pirates were coming to our red,rusty,big,giant and best ship. They came because they thought we had heaps of cool things in our ship but...we didn’t have that cool stuff and then we hear...knock knock it was crooks coming up for our stuff. We all put our hands up because we were so scared of them and then once a person came the person said “you know who I am I am the new boss now give me the hat and then keys…...give me the keys” then the old boss gave the things and then……..robots came out of the ship.

Then the boss was getting so scared because robots are so strong and then when the robots came out and then they went to go make the other pirates cry so the new boss got scared and then the new boss was trying to make the robots get away so we can win.

knock Knock on his back ahhhhh it was the biggest robot ever and the strongest one ever I was so scared cause of that and then…….I said “please don’t pick me up pleases and do slide me under the table please” and then….he did do that because I told him not to do it if I didn’t tell him that what of been cool.

“Yayyyy we are the winners” said the robots and then they said “now you know who you are, the boss now” to the old old boss and gave him the hat and then the key and then the new boss was like “ thank you thank you thank you robot” and then the robot said “it’s ok” and then all of them said “TEAM” yayyyyyy.

Thursday, 13 April 2017

WALT write a narrative through the eyes of one of the children or one of the soldiers

Beyond the line

I was in the war and then I was made out of paper. I was daydreaming of us being in the war with my granddad. But I would have been so scared of going to the war.

I would have died but I was with my friend who saved me. I was getting way more scared and scared, and then I saw my best friend, her name is Aliyah. Aliyah did die. I didn’t want to be in the war anymore because my dad would have died and I don’t want him to die because he is so nice.

Then I was hearing gunshots and then my dad got up and shot them all. I got up and looked at all the soldiers . When I got up my dad died because he got out of the trench and then I said “dad wake up “ but my dad was trying to say” I, I think i’m dying” and I was like “ no no noooooo you arent” and he said “yes I am” and then Aliyah my best friend said “noooo I don’t want him to die he is so nice”and they were as scary as lions and as dirty as a hippo. Because they are so dirty and big and mean to us. Because they don’t like us, because we try to kill them and they try do that to us. Because I don’t like them and they don’t like me, because they try and shoot me and then everyone was just too scared to be in war now and we all lied about our ages. I’m 24 and all my other friends are only 19 and most of my friends have already died because they were shot by a girl could Ngapera. Then we went to go back home to my grandson.

In the end when I went to sleep I heard peng, peng “the guns shot while I was sleeping so I had to go to get up and go and shoot them and then I ran to go back to my grandkids because they had been missing me to much so I had to come back because I missed them as well.

I had to have sleep every day plus all day because I was so tired once I got home because I didn’t get sleep when I was at war so I went to school with them sometimes because I would be asleep sometime and then we lived happily ever after the end.